But look at the progress - down 22 percentage points since the year that overpaid lumps like Owen, Beye, Bassong, Viduka, Martins and Duff got us relegated.

what is the overall aim? how low do you want it to go? spending £53m every year on player wages is a lot of money.

You get better value for money if you invest heavily in wages than if you invest heavily in transfer fees.
Arsenal have discovered that, and we are following suit. Ashley always said he wanted to follow the Arsenal model.

But look at the progress - down 22 percentage points since the year that overpaid lumps like Owen, Beye, Bassong, Viduka, Martins and Duff got us relegated.

what is the overall aim? how low do you want it to go? spending £53m every year on player wages is a lot of money.

You get better value for money if you invest heavily in wages than if you invest heavily in transfer fees.Arsenal have discovered that, and we are following suit. Ashley always said he wanted to follow the Arsenal model.

and you have the cheek to call out other members on not answering questions?

But look at the progress - down 22 percentage points since the year that overpaid lumps like Owen, Beye, Bassong, Viduka, Martins and Duff got us relegated.

what is the overall aim? how low do you want it to go? spending £53m every year on player wages is a lot of money.

You get better value for money if you invest heavily in wages than if you invest heavily in transfer fees.Arsenal have discovered that, and we are following suit. Ashley always said he wanted to follow the Arsenal model.

and you have the cheek to call out other members on not answering questions?

The overall aim is to finish one position higher in the Premier League table than we do in the Premier League spending-NET-on-fees-and-wages table.

But look at the progress - down 22 percentage points since the year that overpaid lumps like Owen, Beye, Bassong, Viduka, Martins and Duff got us relegated.

what is the overall aim? how low do you want it to go? spending £53m every year on player wages is a lot of money.

You get better value for money if you invest heavily in wages than if you invest heavily in transfer fees.Arsenal have discovered that, and we are following suit. Ashley always said he wanted to follow the Arsenal model.

and you have the cheek to call out other members on not answering questions?

The overall aim is to finish one position higher in the Premier League table than we do in the Premier League spending-NET-on-fees-and-wages table.

i am talking about wages, seeing as that was the point of discussion. i'd have thought that was obvious. i'll be sure to spell it out more simply next time.

Our high wage bill actually yields money in saved fees.
For example, last week Krul and Coloccini signed half-decade contracts, probably to do with high wages. However, those players of course, are free aqcuisitions for us, since they already play for us.

And of course, if they change their minds and want to leave, we'll get loads of money for them.

Some of us remember 2009, when the whole of England was laughing at us Mike Ashley should get the Nobel Economics Prize.
And let's not forget, the wage bill has actually gone DOWN by 22 %points since the season in which we were relegated.

And I repeat...
Some of us remember 2009, when the whole of England was laughing at us